Moral virtue delineated : in one hundred and three short lectures, both in French and English on the most important points of morality / each lecture exemplify'd with a copper plate done by the famous Monsieur Daret ... ; the design of said plates being taken from the celebrated gallery of Zeno at Athens, founder of the Stoick philosophy : the whole recommended for the instruction of youth, especially those of the highest quality.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gomberville, M. Le Roy (Marin Le Roy), sieur de, 1600-1674.

Contributor:

Daret, Pierre, 1604-1678.

Veen, Otto van, 1556-1629.

Gibbs, Thomas Mannington.

Aubin, Penelope, approximately 1679-approximately 1738.

Standardized Title:

Doctrine des moeurs tirée de la philosophie des stoiques. French & English. 1726

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Emblems.

Maxims.

Penn Provenance:

Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861- (donor) (copy 1)

Physical Description:

xi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 211 pages, 1 unnumbered page, ; 1 leaf of plates : illustrations (engravings) ; 37 cm (folio)

Edition:

The second edition.

Place of Publication:

London : printed for J. Darby [and 8 others], 1726.

Notes:

Text of t.p. transcribed from NUC Pre-1956 imprints.

2 pts. in 1 vol., each with half-title: "Moral virtue delineated".

Frontispiece: "Petr. Daret celauit".

Daret's engravings based in part on the Horatii Emblemata of Otto van Veen.

Dedication signed: Penelope Aubin.

Translator's preface (p. vii-viii) signed: Thomas Mannington Gibbs.

French and English in parallel columns.

Included with each maxim and its explication are quotations from classical Roman authors together with English translations of the texts.

P. 189 incorrectly numbered 186.

Local Notes:

Cop 1 Imperfect: Lacks t.p.

Related Work:

Veen, Otto van, 1556-1629. Q. Horatii Emblemata.

OCLC:

12356324